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Sweeter for Me Lyrics

Artist: Joan Baez
Album: In Concert 2

(Words and Music by Joan Baez)

Red telephone sitting by my bedPractically bore your nameLying alone in the twilight zoneWaiting for your call to come inHadn't been for the kidWho was sleeping upstairsYou'd have found me well on my wayOn that midnight plane to L.A.

You suffered sweeter for meThan anyone I've ever known

I dared to look into the yearsWould you still have your wife?I dared to peer through my tearsCould we ever have a life?Even thought I was pregnant by youBut I didn't careI just talked to my sonWould he mind another one?

You suffered sweeter for meThan anyone I've ever known

Once more the mist rolls to the seaLike a hundred times we've knownTrees are faded and the clouds have stoppedWhere the wind had blownHow I dread when the evening comesAnd I cannot beWhat you want me to beWhen you are next to me

How silent you are as the veils come downBefore my eyesSoft and reserved as you move awayDonning your disguiseWhile every folk song that I ever knewOnce more comes trueAnd loves grows oldAnd waxes cold

You suffered sweeter for meThan anyone I've ever known

Just one favor of you, my loveIf I should die todayTake me down to where the hillsMeet the sea on a stormy dayRide a ridge on a snow white horseAnd throw my ashes awayTo the wind and the sandWhere my song began

You suffered sweeter for meThan anyone I've ever known

1976, 1977 Gabriel Earl Music (ASCAP)

Comments/Interpretations

by DawnRose Hurst-Stultz on 8/1/2012 5:52amthis has always been one of my 'theme' songs, so beautiful! Joan Baez rocks, one of the originals....